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Overview

The Monitoring Grant Activities and Tracking Tool (MGATT) is a comprehensive module for identifying, tracking, monitoring, and providing support to grant awards and the related objectives. The goal of MGATT is to:

  1. Identify and document insight and opportunities for grantee compliance and performance improvement.
  2. Develop, approve, and monitor the Standardized Work Plan (SWP).
  3. Provide consultation support for performance improvement.
  4. Track and monitor the progress of SWP.


Key components of this module are:

  1. SWP Submission process for the Grantees
  2. SWP Review and Finalization process for the Project Officers (POs)
  3. Quarterly Progress Update (QPU) Submission for the Grantees 
  4. Quarterly Progress Update (QPU) Review process for the Project Officers
  5. MGATT Program Oversight Module (POM) Reports/Resources for the POs, Program Quality Controller (PQCs) and Program Approving Official (PAOs) 


This help page will provide step by step instructions on component #1, the SWP Submission process for Grantees

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Standardized Work Plan (SWP) Submission (Grantee/External System)

Navigating to the SWP task

Click on the Tasks tab from the top navigation bar in the EHBs. 

Screenshot of top Navigation Bar

You will land on the “Pending Tasks - List” page, where you will see a task with a tracking number starting with “SWP####”. This is your SWP submission task.

Pending Tasks - List

Click on “Start/Edit” under Options to navigate to the Standardized Work Plan – Status Overview Page.

This Page will give you key information about your SWP submission.

Screenshot of Status overview Page

A. In the Header section you will see your Grant Information, Due Date for the SWP submission and Number of Days left or Days Past Due.

B. From the Resources links you can access the Standardized Work Plan (Read Only), the Grant Folder, the NOFO and Help.

C. In the Standardized Work Plan section, you can see links to update your Standardized Work Plan, Status of your updates ( X Not Started, ! In Progress or Completed) and Last Updated dates for each links.

      • Clicking on the Standardized Work Plan link will navigate you to the Standardized Work Plan - Goals page.

D. The Forms Overview section will display the Last Updated On with a date & time stamp, and Status of the update.

E. The Submit and Print section will allow you to Submit your SWP for review and to Print the SWP as submitted.

F. Clicking on the Return to Prior Page at any time will navigate you back to the Pending Tasks - List page.

SWP Submission

Updating the SWP Goals

Click on the Standardized Work Plan link to go to the Standardized Work Plan – Goals page.

Screenshot of SWP Selection

Clicking on the Standardized Work Plan link will land you on the Standardized Work Plan - Goals page.

Screenshot of SWP Goals Page

In this page you will see the following:

A. Header section provides Grant and Project Information.

B. The Resources section has links to the Standardized Work Plan, Grant Folder, NOFO and Help.

C. Budget Period tabs will list out goals planned for each Budget period and display the budget period start and end dates.

D. Clicking on Update will allow you to review all Activities, Subobjectives and Objectives under each Goal that were included in the SWP submitted with the application. From here you will be able to make the necessary changes prior to submitting them for review and finalization of the work plan.

E. Clicking the “Return to Prior Page” button will navigate you back to the “Standardized Work Plan - Status Overview” page. This can be done via the page button or the Navigational footer available.

F. Clicking the “Submit” button will navigate you to the MGATT Submission Confirmation page. This can be done via the page button or the Navigational footer available. The Submit button will be disabled until all budget periods are marked completed.

Note that you will have to review and update all the Goals within each Budget Period before being able to submit the SWP for review and finalization.

Clicking on “Update” will land you on the Standardized Work Plan - Objectives page.

Screenshot of Update Page

This Page Lists the Goals, Objectives, Sub objectives and Activities within the selected Budget Period as submitted in the application SWP. Under the Goal name, on the left-hand side you can see Objectives listed in tabs. Clicking on each Objective tab will display its own list of Subobjectives and Activities against it. You must review all the Objectives and the Subobjectives and Activities under them.

A. Verify that the Goal is populated, and it is correct based on the NOFO program goals.

B. Verify that the Objective is populated, and it is correct based on the NOFO program objectives.

C. Verify that the Subobjective is populated and update as needed.

D. Verify that the Organizational Priorities are populated and make updates as needed to ensure it accurately reflects what priority is best aligns with the corresponding Sub-Objective.

E. Select the BHW Framework that best aligns with the corresponding Sub-Objective. You can hover the cursor over the “More Info” link to get a description of the options available for selection.

F. Verify that the Activity Details are correct and make updates as needed. Select the target quarters for each activity. These are the quarters in which you are planning to work on the activity.

Ensure that all the information under the Objective is reviewed and all the mandatory fields are completed.

Screenshot of Budget Period Icons

A. Click on Save Objective (or Save & Continue if there are multiple Objectives left to review) to save it. You can move on to reviewing the next Objective. This can be done via the page buttons or the Navigational footer available.

B. Clicking on Return to Prior Page at any time will navigate you to the Standardized Work Plan - Goals page. This can be done via the page button or the Navigational footer available.

Once all the Objectives under the Goal are reviewed and saved, the Finalized Goal button becomes enabled.

Screenshot of Finalized Goal selection

A. Click on Finalize Goal to mark the Goal as completed. This will navigate you back to the Goals page and you can move on to reviewing the next Goal within the same Budget Period.

Clicking on Finalize Goal will land you back in the Standardized Work Plan - Goals page.

Screenshot of Clicking Finalize Goal

In this page you will see the following:

A. The red X mark (X) on the Budget Period tab indicates that you have “Not Started” Reviewing the Goals. This mark will change to exclamation (!) once you start reviewing and will change to green check mark () once you have completed Reviewing the goal(s) under the budget period.

B. The Status of the Goals in this page will be “Not Started” if you have not started reviewing the Goal. It will be “In Progress” if you are in the process of reviewing the Goal. It will be “Completed” if you have saved all the objectives and marked the Goal as finalized.

C. The Last Updated Date will display the date the goal and its items were last updated.

D. The Last Updated By will show the last person to make changes or review the goal and its items.

E. You can Add comments in the Comments section before completing the SWP. You can also delete comments you entered.

F. Clicking the “Return to Prior Page” will navigate you back to the “Standardized Work Plan - Status Overview” page. This can be done via the page button or the Navigational footer available.

Remove Budget Periods

To remove a budget period, click the “Delete Budget Period #” link under the last available budget period. This will be useful when the number of budget periods in the award was less than the number of budget periods entered in the SWP during the application.

Screenshot of Delete Budget Period Selection

The Delete Budget Period confirmation popup will be displayed for the user to confirm or cancel the action. Please note that when the user clicks the Delete Budget Period button from the confirmation popup, all the items from the budget period will be deleted from the SWP.

Screenshot of Delete Budget Button

Deleting the budget period may cause the project period dates and budget period dates to not match and a validation will be displayed if this is the case.

Screenshot of SWP Goals Page

Add Budget Periods

When the dates do not match, because either the budget periods entered in the SWP during application are LESS than the awarded project periods, or if a budget period was removed, a validation is displayed.

Screenshot of SWP Goals Page

To correct the validation, you must add budget periods to match the project period dates.

To add a budget period, click the Plus button next to the last available budget period.

Screenshot of Add Budget Period Button

The Add Budget Period confirmation popup will be displayed for the user to confirm or cancel the action.

Screenshot of Add Budget Pop up

  • If the budget period dates now match the project period dates, then the validation will be cleared, and user will not be able to add new budget periods.
  • If the validation is not cleared because it needs additional budget periods, add budget periods until the last budget period end date matches the project period end date.
  • The maximum number of budget periods is five (5).

Screenshot of SWP Goals Page

Copy Goals from One Budget Period to Another

Instead of having to manually reenter the same goal and its items on each budget period, users can copy a goal from one budget period to another. The user will have the option to copy an entire goal and all its associated items or can choose which items under the goal to copy to another budget period.

From the Standardized Work Plan-Goals page, expand the context menu for the goal which the user wishes to copy to another budget period. The context menu options will be displayed.

Screenshot of Update Dropdown Menu

Click the Copy to Another Budget Period link in the context menu.

Clicking on the Copy to Another Budget Period link will land you in the “Standardized Work Plan-Goal Items to move to another Budget Period” page.

Screenshot of Goal Items List

In this page you will see the following:

A. The Select All Items checkbox is selected by default. If only specific Objectives under the goal need to be copied over, deselect this, otherwise keep it selected.

B. Starting with the Objectives on the left, select which Objective and its associated items to carry over by selecting the appropriate checkboxes. For any item not needed, do not select the corresponding checkbox.

C. If all Subobjectives and activities under the selected objective are to be carried over, keep the Select All selection. Otherwise deselect.

D. Select which Subobjectives under the selected Objective to carry over by selecting the corresponding checkbox.

E. Select which Activities under the selected Subobjective to carry over by selecting the corresponding checkbox.

Please note the following scenarios:

  • If all checkboxes under a goal are unselected, only the Goal will be carried over.
  • If only an objective is selected and none of the associated items are selected, only the goal and objective will be carried over.
  • If selecting Objective, Sub-Objective only, then the goal, objective and Subobjective will be carried over.

Once the selections are completed, scroll down to the bottom of the page and in the dropdown menu, select the target Budget Period and click the Submit button.

Screenshot of Budget Period Selection

Clicking on the Submit button will land you in the selected target budget period and the goal and goal items selected will be available to make updates and mark completed.

Screenshot of Submit Button Selection

Edit and Remove Goal Items

To delete a goal and all its items, from the Standardized Work Plan-Goals page, expand the context menu for the goal which the user wishes to remove. The context menu options will be displayed.

Screenshot of Edit and Remove Goal Items

Click the Delete link in the context menu.

The Delete Goal confirmation popup will be displayed for the user to confirm or cancel the action. Please note that when the user clicks the Delete button from the confirmation popup, the goal and all its associated items will be deleted from the SWP.

Screenshot of Delete Confirmation

To edit a goal and its items, From the Standardized Work Plan-Goals page, expand the context menu for the goal which the user wishes to edit. The context menu options will be displayed.

Screenshot of SWP Goals Page

Click the Update link in the context menu.

Clicking on the Update link will land you in the “Standardized Work Plan - Objectives” page.

Screenshot of SWP Objectives Page

In this page you will see the following:

A. You can edit the name of the goal by clicking the Edit link next to the existing goal name.

B. You can delete an Objective by clicking the Delete Icon for the corresponding Objective. Deleting the Objective will remove all its associated Subobjectives and Activities as well.

C. If you want to edit the text of the Objective, you can edit it in the Objective name text box. The Objective name is a mandatory field.

D. To delete a Subobjective, click the delete icon for the Subobjective you wish to delete. Deleting the Subobjective will remove all its associated Activities as well.

E. You can edit the Subobjective name and information by making changes to the Subobjective fields. The Subobjective name, the Organizational Priorities and BHW Framework sections are mandatory fields.

F. To delete an Activity, click the delete icon for the Activity you wish to delete.

G. You can edit the Activity name and information by making changes to the Milestone Activity fields. The Milestone Activity name, Description, Staff Responsible and Target Quarters sections are mandatory fields.

Once the goal is modified, click Save or Save And Continue to save the changes made to the SWP.

Submitting your SWP

Once all the Budget Period sections are complete, you are now ready to Submit your SWP.

The Submit button will become enabled and to complete the SWP Submission process, click on the Submit button. This action can also be taken via the navigational footer.

Screenshot of Submitting SWP Page

You will be navigated to the SWP Submission Confirmation page.

Verify that all the information on the Submission Notification is correct and click Confirm to complete the SWP submission. Clicking on Confirm will submit the SWP and send out a notification to the Project Officer.

Screenshot of Alert Pop up

This completes the SWP submission process.


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